IRANIAN BEES

Met Phil for dinner after group at Market Table, he'd already eaten. I think it's run by the same people that have Little Owl. It's not as crowded and not as good. But it's OK and you don't have to wait for a seat usually. I got the Branzino which was on top of some delicious escarole with carmelized fennel and raisins.

Phil took a class about bee keeping over the weekend, so he told me all about beehives. He and a beekeeper may start a beefarm? on his roof which overlooks Washington Square South. Phil said the coolest and most elaborate beehives are made by Iranian beekeepers.

Lunch was at Angelica's Kitchen. Mike D was there, he's gotten really skinny and he kind of looks like a woman.

LEFT OVERS

This was better than the lunch I made for Ann. There was leftover cabbage, bean sprouts and cilantro. I had some fancy spaghetti and some peanut sauce left over from last week's summer rolls.

I put it all together like an Italian pasta, but the best thing was adding some toasted coconut at the end... like parmesan. Last week I had the cereal milk soft serve at Momofuku milk bar (lots more on this later) and a friend (who I was on a date with) suggested I get it with the toasted coconut, that makes a big difference.

LUNCH WITH ANN AND WILLY

I've been dog-sitting Willy, Mindy's dog. On a walk this morning, a woman stopped me and said I was walking a chick magnet, she' right.

Ann said she wanted a meatless lunch, so I decided to try a pad thai recipe Bittman wrote about this week, and a carrot and daikon salad which made it ten times better.

GRAMERCY TAVERN

This is a piece of art in the men's room of the Gramercy Tavern.

AUTHORS

Have you ever bought… and then even read a book, just because the author is hot? I have:

Gina Welch’s In the Land of Believers

Here are some other examples:

Donna Tartt The Secret History

Susan Minot Monkeys

Mary Karr The Liar’s Club

MARLOW AND SONS

“I’m Throwing away all my divorce books, they’re revolting”, that’s what Paula said when she arrived. Going to dinner with three friends who are all going through divorces doesn’t seem like fun. But at Marlow and Sons it is. The brick chicken is pretty much my favorite thing to eat anywhere.

Last night they were trying out a new dish, a petit sirloin. I almost never get steak anywhere except the Strip House (more on that in a later post) but this one ranks up there with the best I’ve had.

They also make salads that you want to eat: spinach salad (uncooked) with red onions and little pork pieces and kale salad with something else. I always order the crostini too, tonight it was fennel seeded bread with ricotta. The chocolate salted caramel pie is almost too much, but I get it anyway. Last night we also had an ice cream (couldn’t figure out the flavor) and a little tart. They have a whole wine section that is all chilled reds, my favortie category. We had a bubbly one:

I ran into a friend who was on a blind date, I texted him later to see how it went. He had sex.

EATDAVELOVE

I’m single. So I eat out a lot, and I have time to kill. In my free time, I like going to the farmer’s market and Murray’s Cheese and watching cooking shows. I like buying cookbooks and trying out dishes that I would use to woo a potential mate. Usually I cook for my friends.

This site will be about my eating and cooking experiences. It will be hard not to put some stuff in here about the rest of my life too.

Joe came up with the name EATDAVELOVE. It’s dumb but it’s appropriate.